Weerasinghe’s works  identify mothers as victims of a failed society caught in the crossfire of political ideologies, ethno-linguistic wars, and the overt expression of masculine power. Charged with empathy for their suffering, he essayed their harrowing experience through the dishevelled figures of mothers in his woodcut prints – corresponding with 'Woman with Dead Child' (1903) a deeply moving image of a mother grieving the death of her young son by Kathe Kollwitz. It is a concern that also guides the creation of works such as the Shrine of the Innocents and Yantra Gala that ponder on the countless deaths of innocent youth and their mothers’ search for the missing children at sites of worship.